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...bustling seaport of New Bedford, Mass., a man and a boy found a common interest. The boy, Albert Pinkham Ryder, the son of the town's jack-of-all-trades, was only eleven at the time. But town legend has it that every so often he would cross Mill Street to watch his neighbor Albert Bierstadt, 28, paint. In time, both left their home town to seek their fortunes as artists, but if their paths ever crossed after that, there is no record of it. Last week, as New Bedford's Swain School of Design opened the town...
When Brinkley drifted to tiny Milford, Kansas in 1917, his assets were a sheepskin from the Eclectic Medical University of Kansas City (a diploma mill), a membership in the Masons, and a Saxon Six automobile. Then a rustic came to Brinkley with the complaint that he was a "flat tire," sexually inert. Somehow, Brinkley hit on the idea of implanting a fragment of goat gonad in the old fellow's testicles. He did, and before long the patient had recuperated to the extent that he was able to sire a healthy son-a lad named, appropriately enough, Billy...
...Saskatchewan, where he quit school after the sixth grade, the bearded divine once served two years in a Milwaukee jail for abandoning his four children, later beat a rap for embezzlement. Wolsey's degree as a "biopsychologist" comes from Taylor University of Biopsycho-Dynamic Science, a Chattanooga diploma mill. After serving in the Canadian army during World War II, he was "ordained" in London as a "Christian minister" by a former waiter at the Savoy Hotel...
...Indonesia, the East Germans finished a sugar mill two years behind schedule only to find that it was a beet-sugar mill and the rollers were not heavy enough to crush Indonesian cane sugar...
Germany's DEMAG steel construction company recently won an order for a steel mill in Portugal because it offered a "complete, individualized package," while its U.S. competitors offered only a standard job, take it or leave...